Although the Legislature just shot down a bill to assess the possibility of reintroduction, the idea and debate persist. And everyone's got an opinion.

A blackpoll warbler at the Farallones. Researchers used feather DNA to look into the origins of six species of warbler ...

Conservation often focuses on losses, but rewilding is an exercise in imagination—and optimism. In this issue, we follow California condors into East Bay skies, and consider the apex of ...

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From our gardens and homes, to data collection and traditional ecological knowledge, a collection of stories on how the Bay Area and California are adapting to wildfire. These stories are supported by ...

How much is nature worth—specifically? In this issue, we look at the multibillion-dollar business that has quietly grown up around that question. We cover the growing pains of a Bay Area tech startup ...

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August 13, 2026: As forecasts have changed, we’ve updated the text to indicate that a “very strong” El Niño for this fall and winter is almost certain. The Climate Prediction Center is also now ...

Lupines bloom on the Adler Ranch in Big Sur, which Western Rivers Conservancy acquired and gave to the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County nonprofit in 2020. (Photo by Doug Steakley, courtesy Western ...

The parrots of San Francisco have ancestors from two species that hail from two completely separate parts of South America. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature This San Francisco story begins somewhere along the ...

Pastures are visible from a derelict milking barn at the historic D Ranch, founded in 1870 and abandoned after the creation of Point Reyes National Seashore. There’s an ambitious plan to restore these ...

Parenting is no joke for our local western snowy plovers. First there’s finding real estate on the San Francisco Bay—somewhere salty, flat, and undisturbed in which to dig a slight scrape for a clutch ...